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Message-ID: <CA+5PVA6kaf3Hwyy5twtfcry6oEQA29J4o8X_1ear7N+d0GQPEw@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:52:39 -0500 From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com> To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: Add driver for Apple gmux device On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:10:50PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:37:37AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote: >> >> Apple laptops with hybrid graphics have a device named gmux that >> >> controls the muxing of the LVDS panel between the GPUs as well as screen >> >> brightness. This driver adds support for the gmux device. Only backlight >> >> control is supported initially. >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com> >> > >> > Ping. Is there anything that would prevent getting this into 3.4? >> >> I sent a list of patches that seemed ready for 3.4 to Matthew last week. This >> was on the list and he seemed to agree. I would guess he just either needs >> a minion, a clone, or a time machine. Or maybe all three. > > Huh, guess I missed that, and even now I can't seem to find it. Any > chance you could point me to the list? Oh, sorry. It was a direct mail to Matthew, not on a list. My mistake. Basically, it consisted of this: "OK, so digging through the platform list, here are the patches that seem to be bugfixes that should probably go into 3.3: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/51594 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/2908 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/2943 (replaces 3aa4634c0f23593c5be7e819e02dd6ace671820a in your linux-next/for_linus branches) For 3.4, these seem ready (in addition to what you have in linux-next): http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/2968 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/2888 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/2934 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/2929 " I might spend some time today creating a fixed up git tree with that set of changes/patches and see what comes of it. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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